Anybody have any scars?

My scars...

my biggest ones are from my open heart surgeries.

I have a big one on my knee from when I was a kid and my brother's friend ran over me on his bike...six stitches for that one.

I have one on my arm from a really bad burn.

Hooola!  How could a gorilla exist without getting scars??

Hah!  I am one scarred gorilla.

On my right middle finger, I got a really nice scar where the doc sliced me open after I got bitten by a brown recluse spider.  I like that scar - it saved my life what the doc did for me.

I had neck surgery recently and the doc put me back together with crazy glue (known as Dermoplast in medical terminology).  That one can hardly be seen now.

I got more, but those are my fave-rave scars.

Two on my abdomen. On from an ectopic pregnancy, the other from an appendectomy. Any others that Ihave aren't worth mentioning. (except the one on my shoulder from the small pox vaccination when I was a child)

Well, there's the one on my left knee from my bike accident when I was 11.  More recently, I have a nice white one on my left elbow from a roller blading accident. 

*2 c-sections
*more little burns than I can count
*a scar on the top of my head from a lawn dart
*a scar on my forehead from when I was in a bike accident (temp. blinded)
*a ton of strectch marks from when I moved in with my grandparents when I was 12... and then a bunch more from 2 pregnancies.

2 C sections, one vertical, one horizontal, so I look like I have an upside down "T" on my abdomen and 3 1 inch from gallbladder surgery, those are the major ones

I've never had surgery or broken bones.  The only real scar I have is on my left cheek but it is hardly noticable.  I've been pretty blessed in that department.  As far as emotional scars.............well that's whole other thread.

i have one on my left arm from a copper guitar string....hehe, don't even ask!! and then there's one between my thumb and first finger from a knife when i was nine. oh, and there's numerous ones on my knees from being a rough and tumble child.

An appendectomy scar, and numerous temporary scars on my hands, arms and legs that are constantly being kindly replenished by my cat.

Has anyone else noticed that the scars serve as reminder of events in our lives that would otherwise be forgotten? Scars may not be as bad a thing as most folks (that's hillbilly English for people) sometimes think, or so it appesrs to me, but then, I'm just..........

Plumbdumb
PD

Today at 10:33 PM David Gould said this in Post #29

An appendectomy scar, and numerous temporary scars on my hands, arms and legs that are constantly being kindly replenished by my cat.

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Same here.

Have you tried to trim your cat's claws? Y'know, just above the quick.  It's way better for your cat than declawing.

I had surgery this past November on my lung and I have a pretty big scar that starts under my left arm and goes up my back towards my shoulder blade. Then I had hernia surgery a few weeks ago, so I have a good scar just above my groin area. I have a scar on my left wrist from when I was a kid that is pretty impressive. That is all the scars I want thank you. I don't want anymore scars!!!!!!

Today at 03:06 PM Maiden said this in Post #31



Same here.

Have you tried to trim your cat's claws? Y'know, just above the quick.  It's way better for your cat than declawing.

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I have never done it, and probably couldn't bring myself to even though my legs take a clawing every summer when I am only under a thin sheet and my cat thinks every movement I make is an opportunity to play.



 

Yesterday at 07:45 PM Plumbdumb said this in Post #30

Has anyone else noticed that the scars serve as reminder of events in our lives that would otherwise be forgotten? Scars may not be as bad a thing as most folks (that's hillbilly English for people) sometimes think, or so it appesrs to me, but then, I'm just..........

Plumbdumb
PD

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Cool, dude!
I like what you said. 

That would probably be an interesting thread - 'What good things do your scars help you to remember that you might otherwise forget?'

Lots of wonderful stories come to my mind already.

Whadja think?  Wanna talk about that?

Patty

My scars....

One right above my ankle from standing on a glass window that was lying on barn floor. I was trying to see the baby birdies. 3 stiches.

One right above my lip, from tumbling down cement steps in my baby stroller. Can't remember if it took any stiches, I'm thinking it did, because my smile is crooked from it.

One on my forehead, don't know if that is from chicken pox or the baby stroller accident.

Slight scar on palm side, ring ringer on left hand. Was cleaning a window that was cracked, hand went through window.

Two different scars on my last two toes on my left foot, I do believe that came from the window standing incident.

The last one scar that required stiches is on the bottom of my right foot. I used to live across the road from some railroad tracks. Train went by and jarred a caserole dish off a shelf. I went to clean it up. The glass was the same color as the floor vents and I went to scratch the bottom of my foot and sliced it instead. 12 stiches.

And I have bunch more other scars, like from burns and scratches and other little things.

The one lesson that I have learned from all this is.......I would rather have a cut that requires stiches than get a paper cut, paper cuts hurt worse. And once the cut is numbed up I get to sit there and watch it get sewed up

I wouldn't trade any one of these accidents. I've learned so much from them. And they remind me of different times in my life.

I also wouldn't trade in any of my emotional scars either, they make up who I am today. I've learned many valueable lessons from those scars. And each one of my emotional scars stands for one more step that I have taken in my journey of growing closer and closer to my Lord and Savior, Jesus

I have scars all over my hands from all the times i should have gone to the hospital to get stitches and didn't. And i have one big one about 7 inches long across my stomach from a surgery.

Today at 01:04 AM David Gould said this in Post #33




I have never done it, and probably couldn't bring myself to even though my legs take a clawing every summer when I am only under a thin sheet and my cat thinks every movement I make is an opportunity to play.



 

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It doesn't hurt them if you clip the tip off.  Just make sure that its above the quick (above the pink part inside the claw).  Wait till your cat is sleepy, asleep, or just really relaxed.  If that doesn't work, massage their paw for a bit and talk to them softly.  Or just wear slippers in bed.